A fic preview in vid form!

[sholio]

The help_haiti fics are supposed to be done by Feb. 14 ... *coughcough* notgonnahappen. Since my fic is currently floundering in the throes of massive POV and plot woes, I decided to give astridv a vid preview of it instead! I hope this will tide you over 'til I get the actual fic done.

The story behind the vid is that the fic I'm writing is an AU, and I realized as I worked on it that I imagined it as a sort of '80s TV show, with lots of explosions and car chases and such. And an '80s TV show needs ... cheesy '80s credits! (Yes, this is why I was asking for clips of Sam in civvies. :D)

I guess the best way to describe this thing is "Birds of Prey meets the A-Team". :D The music is the theme song for Airwolf (anyone remember that show?). So, astridv, if your fic (tentatively titled "Finders") was a TV show, these would be its credits.

MP4 format (29 Mb), zipped. Clips from SGA and SG1.

[Right-click and download.]

(After the previous conversation about vidding, I know that some people prefer streaming vids, so I intend to start offering streaming versions of mine when I can -- but there's a learning curve, so it's still download-only for now. However, if MP4 doesn't work for anyone, please let me know and I'll see what I can do!)

Comments

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

The music is the theme song for Airwolf (anyone remember that show?).

*ahem* would it show my age to say I do.. :) :/

I can't play it.. ...*grrr*

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

Hee, cool! :D

Wasn't Airwolf the show that ran out of money in its second season and developed the most hilarious special effects?

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

It had three seasons with excellent helicopter stunts, Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine, then for the "4th" season everyone left and they reset it all with stock footage and Barry Van Dyke, Michelle Scarabelli and Gerwaint Davies.. wasn't quite so good by that point:/.. kinda like Galactica 80 was to original Battlestar Galactica..

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

Ah, fourth then. I can never remember which series got crappy when for what reasons.

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the VLC player? It's free, it's stable, and it plays just about everything.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Whee! Okay, that was fun, and what you did with Rodney was super cool. I also find it hilarious that making a vid for a fake TV show was less work than the fic itself. (I am much looking forward to the fic, too.)

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

my comp should have defaulted to it.. i am ironing out some little quirks:)

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

I only remember because I avoid the last series like the plague.. :D and I am looking at the box set which is sat on the shelf in front of me:D

[aelfgyfu_mead]

They went four seasons? I think I quit in the second. Holy. Cow.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I'm so glad you told me where you got the music, because otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd have sat there the whole time and thought, "Where do I know this from?" (Then I'd probably have replayed it, then called in Brilliant Husband—and he wouldn't know it because he didn't watch—and then I'd probably resort to asking you.)

I love the clips! Your story looks like fun! Det. John Sheppard and Det. Ronon Dex!

[astridv.livejournal.com]

o_O How awesome is this??!!!! OMG!!!

Take all the time you need with this fic, seriously. I'll be over here, rewatching my vid over and over.

I got a vid. ♥

... heh, have to edit some more. I watched it a couple times more and I'm so intrigued by what you're doing with the characters, all of them! I'm really curious now.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I also find it hilarious that making a vid for a fake TV show was less work than the fic itself.

No kidding! LOL. Man, if I made a vid like that I'd feel accomplished for at least half a year.

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

seriously.. didn't last all that long into the season..

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

Got it to work.. very nice..

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Ooh! Love your icon!

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I WANT THIS SHOW RIGHT NOW.

*waits patiently*

WHERE IS THE SHOW?!?

*waits more*

Is Rodney in a wheelchair? Is he Barbara Gordon?!? MY JOY NECESSITATES CAPSLOCK!11!!!

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I KNOW RIGHT?!

WHERE IS THE SHOW?!?

It's been running on channel 01 in my brain pretty much non-stop since I saw the vid. :D

I keep wondering what's happened to Rodney? And could Sam be any more badass? (I think not.) Teyla and Jennifer kick ass and look damn hot while doing it! And John and Ronon as detective partners! And Jeannie all badass with technology! Heeeh.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

OMG!
I WANT TO WATCH THAT SHOW PLEASE!!!!!

(although at that one clip near the end my brain said "hello Daniel's arm!")

Still, seriously, brilliant! and awesome! And it totally looks like a different show. And wow.

WIN!

[sholio]

Heeeee~! I'm so delighted that you like it; I'm kinda going off your prompt, but I think I know enough of your reading tastes by now to have a general idea of the sort of thing you like, so I'm going with that too. :D And the idea of Rodney as, basically, Oracle was just too much fun for me to say no to myself. :DDD

One thing that there was just no way to get across in the vid is that the whole "series" is based around Sam having a metaphysical ability to "read" objects and locate their owners (or find a missing object itself). That's what she and her team do -- they find missing things and people, using her ability.

[sholio]

Heh ... my little brother was about four or five when the show was popular and for awhile there, he insisted on having all of us call him "Hawke". It was very cute.

[sholio]

*grin* It's not as much extra work as it sounds like, because I was working on the vid simultaneously with the fic, basically as inspiration -- I'd get stuck on the fic, or have trouble visualizing the AU characters, and I'd go work on the vid for awhile!

Glad you enjoyed it. :D

[sholio]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D

One of the fun things about making the vid was going to Youtube and looking up the beginning credits for a bunch of '80s action shows. OMG, nostalgia!

[sholio]

Hee, thanks! I'm glad you liked it -- I *so* want to watch this show now, which is unfortunate because a) it doesn't exist, and b) I have to write it. *g*

[sholio]

Yay, I'm glad you got it to work! I know MP4 is a bit of an obscure format, but it's the only thing iMovie seems to be willing to produce for me right now ...

[sholio]

LOL! I WANT IT TOO! Why doesn't this show exist?

Is Rodney in a wheelchair? Is he Barbara Gordon?!?

Yes. :D

(And one of the harder things in the vid was making that work visually, since he moves around so much in canon! I really wanted to get in some of his and Sam's clips from Road Not Taken, but he's standing up in all of them...)